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Ice Boating. 
ALTHOUGH there was an abundance of cold 
weather and ice last winter, conditions were un- 
favorable for ice boating on the North Shrews- 
bury at Red Bank, N. J. The ice early became 
snow-covered and continued so generally through- 
out the season. There was racing on three days 
only. 
The new boat Imp demonstrated her superiority 
by winning the four races sailed, the last race 
being with the Shrewsbury Club of Pleasure Bay, 
winning the first leg of the match on March o. 
The ice then became too soft for further boating. 
The best race of the season was the first on 
Jan. 28. Imp, Daisy, Silver Heels and Tyro com- 
peted, and it was anybody’s race until the last 
lap when the wind lightened and they came home 
in order named. In the third race Silver Heels’ 
bobstay jumped out of the martingale and she 
broke in two. 
The coming winter it is expected that there 
will be four racing third class boats, 350 sq. ft. 
of sail or under, to look out for the club’s trophies. 
Willis’ Bend and Parker’s Imp, Edw. F. Asays’ 
Daisy, Chas. P, Irwin’s Georgie 2d and Grant 
and Morford’s Tyro. Challengers are in from 
the Branchport and Pleasure Bay clubs of the 
South Shrewsbury River. 
The club, located at Red Bank, is the North 
Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club. It is an old or- 
ganization and has conducted racing here for 
many years besides having challenged several 
times and raced with the Hudson River ice 
yachts for the first class pennant of the world, 
now held by Com. Rogers’ Jack Frost. A num- 
ber of years ago Scud was taken to Orange Lake 
and captured a beautiful silver cup from the 
club located there. 
There are three first class ice yachts in the 
club at present, but racing is confined to the third 
class boats, and to the mosquito fleet. The sloop 
rig is the favorite, having completely super- 
ceded the lateen rig, for both racing and pleasure 
sailing on account of ease of handling and live- 
liness of action. 
It is to be hoped that if we are unfortunate 
enough to have a severe winter there may be 
good ice boating as a compensating advantage. 
T. H. Grant. 
Wakiva’s Cruise. 
ONE of the most complete yachts in the list 
of private vessels, owned by New Yorkers, is 
L. V. Harkness’ steam yacht Wakiva. Wakiva 
is a goo ton vessel and was built for Mr. Hark- 
ness by Cox & King, of Leith, Scotland. She 
was sent to Boston after a trial spin to Spitz- 
bergen, where Mr. Harkness witnessed the start 
of the Wellman balloon expedition. 
Mr. Harkness is to join his new yacht here 
and will then go on a trip around the world on 
the vessel away from the beaten paths usually 
followed by yachtsmen. Under Captain Spinney’s 
direction the Wakiva has been fitting out at her 
mooring in Boston Harbor. 
With Mr. Harkness will go aboard his daugh- 
ter, his son-in-law and a number of invited 
guests. It is expected that Wakiva will pro- 
ceed to Nassau, thence to the Bahamas and 
Havana. After spending a few days in the Cuban 
capital the yacht will be headed across the Gulf 
Stream to a point near Galveston, where those 
on board will find amusement in duck shooting. 
Wakiva’s course will then be laid south to the 
Amazon River, which she will ascend for a dis- 
tance of nearly twelve hundred miles. 
Alligator shooting will form one of the princi- 
pal diversions of the guests aboard Wakiva dur- 
ing the passage up and down the Amazon. Then 
the course will be laid south to Terra del Fuego, 
and possibly the Straits of Magellan may be 
traversed and a trip northward along the South 
American west coast be made. 
Wakiva is 230ft. over all and 19sft. on the 
waterline. She has a beam of 30ft. 6in. anda 
draft of 13ft. toin. Her complement of officers 
and men numbers forty. It is expected that 
Wakiva will fall in for part of the cruise with 
the American Atlantic fleet now going to the 
Pacific. 
Captain L. A. Spinney, of Provincetown, who 
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commands Mr. Harkness’ new yacht, has selected 
a crew with great care, and every man is an ex- 
perienced and trusted mariner. 

The Bermuda Race. 
ComMoporE Henry Doscuer, of the New 
Rochelle Y. C., is the first man to enter his. boat 
in next summer’s race to Bermuda. 
Zurah, Commodore Doscher’s schooner yacht, 
in which he sailed the race last year, is a Lawley 
boat built in 1901 and has proved herself to be 
a fine sea boat. Unfortunately her crew were 
a lot of shallow water men, who wanted to take 
in sail when the sun went down, and but for a 
husky lot of good amateurs might have done 
so. So, though she did not win the race, Com- 
modore Doscher got some experience by which 
he will profit in this race. He discharged the 
whole crew as soon as he got back to the States, 
and no doubt he will see that the men who man 
his craft this coming year are the kind who are 
not afraid to carry sail after dark. 
Zurah’s spars were, it is true, the lightest in 
proportion of any in the fleet, and many were 
the speculations as to whether they would stand 
or not. But in the coming race Zurah will have 
been properly groomed and fitted up for her 
work and Dervish will not find it so easy to 
get away from her when next they head offshore 
for the Onion Isle. 

Yachting in the Northwest. 
SAN Francisco, Dec. 7.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Interest in yachting in the Pacific 
Northwest is keen, and from all indications the 
big races to be held in Seattle, Wash., next sea- 
son will be notable events. The regatta at 
Seattle next summer will be the greatest gather- 
ing of yachtsmen ever held in the Northwest, as 
a number of distant clubs have signified their 
intention of taking part in the event. The 
Alexandra cup race is one of the most im- 
portant Pacific Coast events, and competition 
will be active. C. H. Benson, a well-known 
eastern designer, has written the Royal Van- 
couver Y. C., of Vancouver, B. C., asking for 
particulars and conditions of the Alexandra- 
Spirit races at Seattle last July. Mr. Benson 
has expressed his willingness to journey to the 
coast to study conditions, and it is practically 
certain that a syndicate will be formed and a 
Benson-designed craft entered for the great 
contest at English Bay next summer. The 
Everette Y. C. has announced its intention of 
building a cup defender and some of the Calj- 
fornia clubs will also enter the Pacific North- 
west Association and make a bid for the cup. 
These entries will make necessary the holding 
of a series of races to decide upon the de- 
fenders and challengers. 

Yacht Sales. 
THE cruising hunting launch Adria has been 
sold by Mr. Geo. M. Van Doorn, Brooklyn, to 
Mr. E. D. Hunter through the agency of Stanley 
M. Seaman, 220 Broadway, New York. The 
yacht has been sent to Brunswick, Ga., from 
where she will be taken to Charleston, S. C. 
The steam yacht Grey Fox has been sold by 
Mr. Lewis Herzog, of this city, to Mr. G. M. 
Kennedy, of Galveston, Texas, through the agency 
of Stanley M. Seaman, 220 Broadway, New 
York. ‘ 
Grey Fox is of steel construction throughout, 
built by_the Gas Engine and Power Co. and 
Charles L. Seabury & Co., in 1902. She is o8ft, 
over all, 14ft. beam, sft. gin. draft. She has been 
fitted with bilge keels, spars and sails, and has 
left here in charge of Captain John Landberg 
and Engineer Brown for Galveston. She is ex- 
pected to make the run in about three weeks. 

Florida Motor Boat Races. 
THE fourth annual motor boat races on Lake 
Worth, Palm Beach, Fla., will take place in 
March. Theodore D. Wells, this city, is the 
chairman of the regatta committee. 

[DEc. 21, 1907 


Brooklyn Y. C. Offer International Cup 
THE chances for an international yacht race 
look bright once more. 
At the fifteenth annual meeting of the Brook- 
lyn Y. C., held recently at the Hotel Marlbor- 
ough, it was decided to offer a trophy for a race 
which will be open to any foreign yacht club for 
any type or size of boat which may be desired, 
the races to be sailed at any time and place to 
be mutually agreed upon under conditions to be 
framed jointly over any length course that may 
be desirable. The offer was made at the fiftieth 
annual meeting of the club, and a committee ap- 
pointed to communicate with all the leading for- 
eign clubs, and to specifically invite them to 
compete. This committee will meet shortly, 
frame tentative conditions, and at once open com- 
munications with European clubs in the hope 
of getting a race either this coming season or 
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Friday the Thirteenth. 
Ir is. a rather curious coincidence that the 
seven-masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson, the 
largest schooner in the world, named after the | 
famous Boston financier, Thomas W., Lawson, 
who wrote the books, “Friday the Thirteenth” 
should turn turtle and become a wreck off the 
Scilly Islands, drowning sixteen of her crew in 
a gale on Friday, Dec. 13. 


Canoeing. 

Death of Manley Cross. 
MANLEY Cross, for the past five years the care- 
taker of Sugar Island, and the friend of all the 
campers there, died on the 6th instant, and was 
buried on the 7th. No further particulars are 
obtainable at this writing, but will be published 
next week. All the members of the A. C. A. 
who stored their tents, etc., at Manley’s farm 
this past summer, can doubtless rest assured 
that the same care will be given their effects by 
his family, and if any change is made at the 
farm, some representative can be selected in 
Gananoque to look after all such matters. 

A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED, 
Eastern Division—Quincy Pond, Auburndale, 
Mass., by J. R. Robertson. 
Western Division—Thomas T. Parker, De- 
troit, Mich., by W. H. Moreton. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division—s367, Lawrence M. Thomp- 
son, Princeton, N. J.; 5376, Harrison Elliott, 
Brooklyn, N, Y.; 5414, R. Roth, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Central Division—s366, Harry C. Loudenbeck, 
Wilkinsburg, Pa. 
Eastern Division.—5368, Geo. W. Mansfield, 
Boston, Mass.; 5360, Bancroft L. Goodwin, Nor- 
wood, Mass.; 5370, Geo. E. Brown, Boston, 
Mass.; 5371, Harry L. Tilton, Boston, Mass. ; 
5372, J. K. Park, Newtonville, Mass. 
Western Division.—5373, Irving F. Koch, Chi- 
cago, Ill.; 5374, Arthur Bonnet, Chicago, Ill; 
5375, Perry Mueller, Chicago, Ill.; 5377, Harry 
W. Pollard, Rockford, Ill; 5378, Orlo M. 
Stevens, Rockford, Ill.; 5370, J. Bertram An- 
drews, Rockford, Ill.; 5380, F. Nate Kelley, 
Rockford, Ill.; 5381, C. W. Davis, Rockford, IIL; 
5382, Andrew Berg, Rockford, Ill.; 5383, Earl 
J. Van Wie,. Rockford, Ill.; 5384, Arthur S. 
Butterworth, Rockford, Ill.; 5385, Hugh G. Par- 
sons, Rockford, IIl.;. 5386, Geo. C. McLean, 
Rockford, Ill.; 5387, Frank Taylor, Rockford, 
Ill.; 5388, Edward J. Steinberg, Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 



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